Vettel thinks that 2011 Red Bull still has plenty of development potential and is confident the team will unlock more race pace over the coming weeks.
“I think if you look at the championship so far it has been tight and it will stay tight,” he told ESPNF1 in aninterview. “People will obviously try to catch up as much as they can and try to win races and we have to make sure that we keep improving our car ourselves.
“In terms of room for development, I think there are always things you can improve. You’ll find yourself in a position where you’re thinking of things to improve on the car that you didn’t think were possible a couple of weeks before. Day by day we have to go step by step and find new things. Back at the factory we have guys trying to make things better in many ways, not just aero wise but also mechanically, and we do bring a lot of new parts to the track. We just have to hope that they work and that they make the car faster.”
“Every race is different,” he said. “With the tyres especially this year, it’s usually a different picture we have after the race compared to what we had at the start. If you look at this year there were some races where we didn’t perform according to what we expected. But we have two or three things we are working on and we have to do better in the future.
“There are no secrets. Working with the tyres, obviously in the race there are so many things coming up, you start with a very heavy car so the forces are different and the loads that you have to put into the car and into the tyres. I think all in all we have a very fast package and we just have to make sure we can use it no matter what the conditions are and no matter what stage of the race we are at.”
